In the News

January 22, 2025
A meeting of wildlife conservationists to develop a National Species Action Plan for Dholes in Nepal was held from August 9-11, 2024. Also known as Asiatic wild dogs, dholes are a globally endangered species of wild canid that has been lost from more than 75% of its former range due to habitat destruction, loss of prey, persecution, and disease.

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December 23, 2024
There’s one thing about working in wildlife rehabilitation medicine that you don’t realize until you are actually doing it — you want your patients to hate you.

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December 19, 2024
My role within the Cornell Wildlife Health Lab (CWHL) is a grab bag of all things related to molecular biology - meaning that no two days are ever alike, and I never do all the different parts of my job in a single day....

December 17, 2024
A new combination of climate and habitat crises, along with immune system stress, is driving more bat-borne viruses to afflict us. Cornell's Dr. Raina Plowright discusses how any public-health intervention to prevent future pandemics will need to tackle the whole environmental tapestry.

December 12, 2024
This past summer, I had the opportunity to travel to Jekyll Island, Georgia, where I served as a veterinary student extern at the Georgia Sea Turtle Center (GSTC). As part of the Jekyll Island Authority, GSTC provides rehabilitation, education, and research programs focused on conserving local wildlife and their habitats....

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December 09, 2024
College of Veterinary Medicine faculty, in partnership with the University of Pretoria in South Africa, have received an NIH P20 grant to establish the Center for Transformative Infectious Disease Research on Climate, Health and Equity in a Changing Environment (C-CHANGE).

December 04, 2024
Government isn’t the first place that most veterinary students would think of charting a career path, even those of us interested in wildlife. However, as I learned this past summer, government work can offer just as rich and diverse an experience as any zoo....

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December 02, 2024
Researchers including Cornell's Dr. Martin Gilbert discuss how developing vaccines and vaccination programs for free-living endangered wildlife could help conservation efforts to prevent extinctions from disease threats.

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November 25, 2024
Wildlife rely on free movement across heterogeneous landscapes to access resources which facilitate population resilience to disturbance. Cornell's Dr. Maggie Swift talks about her research on African savanna elephant movements in the Kavango Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area.

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November 22, 2024
This past spring, I completed a preceptorship at White Oak Conservation in Yulee, Florida with support from the Cornell K. Lisa Yang Center for Wildlife Health’s Student Support Fund....